The New York Bar Association has failed to water down a new rule that forces lawyers to guarantee the accuracy of legal papers filed in foreclosure cases.

The lawyers’ group tried to get New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman to weaken his recently proposed rule, but the state’s top judge refused to budge, his chief of staff said yesterday.

“The law is the same,” Paul Lewis, Lippman’s assistant, told The Post.

The biggest change may be that instead of lawyers signing an affirmation that a wrongful filing may be cause for disciplinary action, it now reads that lawyers must confirm they are aware of their obligations under the New York rules of professional conduct.

As The Post reported first on Nov. 15, foreclosure filings in the state have practically stopped since Lippman’s Oct. 20 proposal. Lewis said he believes the pace of foreclosures will soon return to pre-proposal levels.

“The court took significant enough changes that at least some in the foreclosure industry can live with it,” State Bar Association President Stephen Younger said.